Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis